PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 63 77
Rank change year-on-year +32 +14 +6
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 72 39 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.14% 2.94% 3.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.57% 7.33% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 15 22 27
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £46,335
25th Percentile £56,188 £51,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -8.19% +26.89%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,548
90th Percentile - £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £67,000 £53,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +26.42% -5.78% +2.27%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 350 532 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.55% 40.15% 46.24%
Number of salaries quoted 153 281 374
10th Percentile £26,000 £40,000 £43,137
25th Percentile £33,250 £46,713 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,671
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,253 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,498 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) CICS
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (83.33%) Azure
2 31 (43.06%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (38.89%) Entra ID
4 13 (18.06%) dbt
4 13 (18.06%) Snowflake
5 10 (13.89%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (13.89%) GitHub
6 9 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (11.11%) Boomi
7 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (11.11%) Mimecast
7 8 (11.11%) SaaS
8 7 (9.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.56%) AWS
10 4 (5.56%) Azure App Service
10 4 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) Firewall
2 4 (5.56%) BGP
2 4 (5.56%) DNS
2 4 (5.56%) LAN
2 4 (5.56%) MPLS
2 4 (5.56%) VPN
2 4 (5.56%) WAN
2 4 (5.56%) Wireless
3 3 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (4.17%) Telnet
4 1 (1.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.39%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) JIRA
2 6 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (84.72%) Finance
2 10 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Senior
2 14 (19.44%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (4.17%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Platform Specialist
7 2 (2.78%) Lead
8 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) REST
1 8 (11.11%) SAML
1 8 (11.11%) SOAP
1 8 (11.11%) Web Services
2 6 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 6 (8.33%) OAuth
2 6 (8.33%) OpenAPI
2 6 (8.33%) Swagger
3 3 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (54.17%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.94%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.17%) Equities
5 3 (4.17%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Robotics
6 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.22%) Windows
2 6 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.56%) VMS
4 2 (2.78%) Linux
5 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (76.39%) Asset Management
2 54 (75.00%) Coaching
3 47 (65.28%) Agile
4 46 (63.89%) Roadmaps
5 41 (56.94%) DevOps
6 33 (45.83%) ITIL
7 32 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (41.67%) AI
9 29 (40.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (36.11%) Analytics
10 26 (36.11%) FinOps
10 26 (36.11%) Machine Learning
10 26 (36.11%) Technology Roadmap
11 22 (30.56%) CI/CD
12 18 (25.00%) Information Security
13 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
14 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (15.28%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (15.28%) User Experience
16 10 (13.89%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 49 (68.06%) Python
2 25 (34.72%) Bash
3 20 (27.78%) SQL
4 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.33%) C#
6 4 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (8.33%) CISSP
1 6 (8.33%) CREST Certified
1 6 (8.33%) SANS
2 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.39%) CCNA
3 1 (1.39%) CEH
3 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.39%) Degree
3 1 (1.39%) GIAC
3 1 (1.39%) GREM
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.06%) Accessibility
2 9 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.56%) Docker
5 1 (1.39%) RACF
Systems Management
1 41 (56.94%) Terraform
2 19 (26.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (11.11%) SCCM
3 8 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (8.33%) Ansible
5 5 (6.94%) Grafana
6 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.56%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.39%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.39%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.06%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 8 (11.11%) Workday
4 6 (8.33%) Splunk
5 4 (5.56%) Cisco
5 4 (5.56%) F5
5 4 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 3 (4.17%) Charles River
7 1 (1.39%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.39%) IBM